Most-quoted character in Capricorn One (1977): in 6 of its 13 quotes
Most scenes with: Walter Loughlin (3)
Scenes with Robert Caulfield
6 scenes
Listen to me and listen good. I don't like you, Caulfield. You're ambitious. You think the way to get ahead is to come up with the scoop of the century. Woodward and Bernstein were good reporters, that's how they did it. Not by telling me they've located Patty Hearst three times like you did or that brilliant piece of investigative journalism you pulled off by finding an eye witness to the second gunman in the Kennedy assassination. The small fact that the man had been in a mental institution at the time never deterred you, not 'Scoop' Caulfield. Now most reporters are like me. They are plodders. They spend a lot of their time checking little things... like facts. They cover mundane stories like wars and trials and hearings. You never seem to have enough time in your busy schedule to stoop so low as to cover a story. You occupy your time with tips from people who never existed. Driving your car into water and claiming it wasn't your fault. Getting shot at by unseen gunmen. Now I really hate to interrupt your meteoric career with something so plebeian as a legitimate story. However, a train load of propane gas had the bad taste to derail near Galveston and there's a whole town that just might blow up. So it would be just really peachy of you if you would join your film crew that's waiting for you on the plane at this very moment while we speak.
Robert Caulfield That was some speech.
Robert Caulfield Look, when a reporter tells his assignment editor that he thinks he may be on to something that could be really big, the assignment editor is supposed to say: "You've got 48 hours, kids, and you better come up with something good or it's going to be your neck!" That's what he's supposed to say, I saw it in a movie.
You're not crazy, I'm crazy. I'm crazy for listening and I'm crazy for saying what I'm about to say. I'll give you 24 hours to come up with something. Not 48. I saw the movie too, it was twenty four.
JD Judy Drinkwater
I'll fix you some coffee, then you can jump me.
Robert Caulfield There's no other one besides White Bluff?
D Drinkwater
No, except one abandoned base they used for training during World War Two. Jackson. There's nothing there now. Don't you want to jump me?
Caulfield Of course I do. Where's Jackson?
D Drinkwater
About 300 miles directly west. I think I'm going to get angry with you.
Caulfield Do you have any money on you?
D Drinkwater
You want me to pay you?
Caulfield How much?
D Drinkwater
About a hundred. Why don't I just leave it on the dresser in the morning?
Caulfield Give it to me now.
D Drinkwater
In advance? That's the height of conceit.
Caulfield Please, and your car keys.
Robert Caulfield You in charge here?
A Albain
See that sign there?
Caulfield Yes.
Caulfield I did.
Caulfield A&A Crop Dusting Service.
A Albain
You wanna know who I am?
Caulfield I bet you're one of the A's.
A Albain
But which one? I bet you can't answer that question, smart-ass.
Caulfield The first one.
Caulfield Can I have one more guess?
Caulfield The second one.
A Albain
Wrong. I'm both of them. My name is AlBaine. Now, I got a son. You know, the other A was for him but he don't like to fly. He became a lawyer. I think he's a pervert so I took the A away from him. You want to speak to someone in charge, you're speaking to the both of them.
Caulfield My name is Caulfield.
A Albain
Hey, I can't help that.
Robert Caulfield Mr Albaine, how much do you charge to dust a field?
A Albain
Twenty five dollars.
Caulfield I'd like to hire your plane.
A Albain
That'll be a hundred dollars.
Caulfield You said you charged 25?
A Albain
Twenty five dollars to dust a field, but you ain't got no field because you ain't no farmer, which means you ain't poor and I think you're a pervert!
Caulfield Okay, one hundred.
A Albain
One hundred and twenty five.
Caulfield What?
A Albain
Because you said yes to a hundred too quick, which means you can afford a hundred and twenty five.
Robert Caulfield Somebody took a shot at me.
Robert Caulfield Yesterday.
Thank God I've got an alibi.
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